DIY Meals and Snacks: Teacher Guide and Curriculum Connections
DIY Meals and Snacks helps junior high and middle years foods teachers deliver well-organized, meaningful food and nutrition lessons with full instructional support.
📖 Teacher Guide
The DIY Meals and Snacks Teacher Guide gives junior high and middle years foods teachers everything needed to confidently deliver four ready-to-use lessons. It includes:
Assessment tools
All recipes for each lesson, with suggested variations
Grocery lists to streamline food lab prep
Practical advice, background information, and answer keys for straightforward lesson delivery
Guidance for discussing food in a positive, supportive way, ensuring a welcoming classroom environment
Designed for low-prep teaching, this guide helps teachers plan and deliver engaging, structured food and nutrition lessons while supporting student learning and creativity.
✍️ Curriculum Connections
Alberta teachers: Each lesson is aligned with provincial learning outcomes and includes a completed CTF Abridged Challenge, making it easy to integrate DIY Meals and Snacks into Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) programming. This is a digital-only resource – click “Download” to access it.
Saskatchewan and Manitoba teachers: The lessons can still be used effectively in classrooms, but formal curriculum connections for these provinces are not yet available.
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DIY Meals and Snacks: Teacher Guide and Curriculum Connections
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💡 Teacher Tip
A few minutes reviewing the slidedecks and Student Workbook alongside the Teacher Guidebefore classsets you up for smooth, confident lesson delivery.